blogging for the right reasons?

somehow a few blogs got me thinking. the credit goes to a few blogs i've been reading lately for the inspiration for this post...

... which will be rather secular in nature.

i remember a time when i used to blog about what happened in school. i remember a time when i used to blog about the petty things i had to say about my enemies and the little incoherent musings i derived from my myopic points of view.

i remember i started my first venture in blogging when i was secondary three. before that, i kept everything in volumes and volumes of diaries that now lie rotting in my cupboard.

i was childish then. i did not realise what a powerful tool blogging would have become, i did not realise that i could have done something more.

that's the way most blogs are headed now. most of them give a minute by minute account of that really fun day at sentosa, or just a blow-by-blow narrative of their significant others. such writing usually betrays a narrow point of view to life as well as immaturity in the idealistic author who whores for comments and visitors. unfortunately (or rather, luckily) in the vast world of the internet, these types of blogs would never ever stand out. face it, nobody wants to read too much about what your dog ate for breakfast.

some blogs are just plain bitchy and/or bimbotic, whoring pictures of the usually very fetching female owners. a picture paints a thousand words and a pretty photoshopped photo beats a million words hands (or face?) down anytime. amongst the many pretty females out there, xiaxue and sillycelly certainly stand out on my list of hatable but popular pretty females (hppf). want their urls? go google them.

the blogs that earned my respect are those with thoughtful insights and/or credible bitching (such as ms. beautifuk or the now m.i.a calm one). it's one thing to rant and rave mindlessly about a certain cab snatcher or an insensitive insult. it is another when you throw wit/sarcasm into the equation to cut the offender down to atom sized shreds.

me?

7km/h is basically my blog for evangelism. a blog wherein i harness the power of a blog to fulfill one of my christian duties to witness for Christ. of course, there are other reasons for this blog as well, reasons that are reflected in the readme for the blog..

anyway, back to the previous point, blogging for Christ: call it taking the lazy way out. i'm not that great at talking about religion to strangers.